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Are viruses driving microbial diversification and diversity?

Environmental microbiology - 1 Jan 2004

Weinbauer Markus G, Rassoulzadegan Fereidoun

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Viruses can influence the genetic diversity of prokaryotes in various ways. They can affect the community composition of prokaryotes by 'killing the winner' and keeping in check competitive dominants. This may sustain species richness and the amount of information encoded in genomes. Viruses can also transfer (viral and host) genes between species. Such mechanisms have probably influenced the speciation of...

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PMID: 14686936
DOI: 10.1046/j.1462-2920.2003.00539.x

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